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by thom 1y ago
The article ends: > Can anything be done about the liana problem? Should we start cutting them down? Definitely not, says Visser. "We shouldn't intervene until we fully understand their ecological role. They bear fruit year-rou
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by thom 1y ago
Your outie has a popular therapy-speak newsletter.
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by thom 1y ago
Ah, so it turns out the solution to the centre not holding is to create as many falconry schools as possible, hoping to yield a dynamic system of falcons in a variety of overlapping gyres, so that at least some remain in hearing distance of
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by thom 1y ago
Do US angels get tax breaks on these investments? The floor in the UK is basically £0.70 on the pound.
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by thom 1y ago
I think the AI hype (much of which is justified) detracts from the fact that we have Actually Good NLP at last. I've worked on NL2SQL in both the before and after times, and it's still not a solved problem, but it's frustrati
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by thom 1y ago
Only the second time this has happened!!1!1!
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by thom 1y ago
This doesn't seem like a big deal. They use what appears to be a widely supported library for their tray icon, and if you don't want that: "The Dropbox app can also run in headless mode, once you meet the essential system req
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by thom 1y ago
Of course, if you don't have separate downstream and upstream datastores, you don't have anything to do in the first place.
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by thom 1y ago
A very different time and political backdrop, but the way people talk about this as a psychedelic, collective experience reminds me of Blue Jam, Chris Morris’s deranged late-night ambient comedy show: https://youtube.com/pla
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I agree this is somewhat manufactured. Both Hugo de Garis and Ben Goertzel identified as Cosmists in the mid to late 00s, but I don't remember it ever coming up on SL4/singularitarian/transhumanist mailing lists as a major so
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by thom 1y ago
This works by locking down the edges of the system (e.g. tools) not to do stupid things, and maintaining provenance information end to end to inform that. That’s great if the attack is “send this sensitive document to baddie@evil.com” but i
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by thom 1y ago
I've always found magrittr mildly hilarious. R has vestigial Lisp DNA, but somehow the R implementation of pipes was incredibly long, complex and produced stack traces, so it moved to a native C implementation, which nevertheless has t
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by thom 1y ago
It’s an incredibly privileged position, I accept, but I don’t want to work somewhere that doesn’t want to hire the real me, and so I’ve always just been 100% honest and assumed things will work out.
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by thom 1y ago
This is definitely a cromulent idea, although I’ve realised lately that ChatGPT with search turned on is a great balance of tailoring to my exact use case and avoiding hallucinations.
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by thom 1y ago
I have no idea what my accent is at this point. I spent enough time in Oxford that I can pass as posh if I need to, moved to a part of Cheshire that had a huge scouse population, then moved to Watford and then Kent and picked up my dad’s dr
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by thom 1y ago
Is there an equivalent of The Mom Test for talking to domain experts?
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by thom 1y ago
The bottom layer of C4 is still basically UML, although everyone usually skips that. I love IcePanel and would recommend everyone try it. But like all these things, it requires an almost superhuman level of commitment to get value out of it
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by thom 1y ago
Humans can do _most_ of what you said in real time, both providers using bespoke software and club analysts using off the shelf stuff like Sportscode. For full positional data on every player, every frame then yes, computer vision is doing
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by thom 1y ago
Multiple companies sell Rugby data of various levels of granularity. I don't know if rugby has all the toys (i.e. full tracking outside of wearables) that soccer or American football have because there's less money sloshing around
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by thom 1y ago
Depends on your definition of AI, but yes, lots of them, and not just the high profile matches.
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by thom 1y ago
Yeah, I accept that "Nash equilibrium" isn't likely to catch on at this stage.
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by thom 1y ago
o4 is doing a better job than o3 on my current project, and while this isn’t really a priority, its personality is somehow far more engaging now.
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by thom 1y ago
Mad tangent, but as an old timey MtG player it’s always jarring when someone uses “the meta” not to refer to the particular dynamics of their competitive ecosystem but to a single strategy within it. Impoverishes the concept, I feel, even i
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by thom 2y ago
That appears to be supported: https://chartscss.org/components/labels/
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by thom 2y ago
Love this channel, perfect ASMR for nerds. Marshall is of course also one of the foremost Magic: the Gathering podcasters and commentators.
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by thom 2y ago
We did sort of have that, it was called Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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by thom 2y ago
Nice try, Satan.
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by thom 2y ago
Isn't Rocket's reputation that they just steal ideas from other startups and create cheap clones of them? Not a terrible business to be in, but not massively inspiring or globally reproducible.
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Basically every editor decided it would be cool to be as slow as Emacs (said with love, as an Emacs user), and so now all the clever stuff is done in potentially several out of proc web servers, each of which uses gigabytes of RAM.
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by thom 2y ago
Part of testing is risk management. With mocks you run the risk of the behaviour of your mocks being out of sync with the actual systems you’re mocking. By moving the test-time behaviour closer to the runtime behaviour, you reduce that risk

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